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09/12/2024

Its all we need “an adequate supply of squash”

09/12/2024

One of those jobs to get done before Christmas

A team of scientists, conservationists and vets will soon set out to achieve a world first in conservation by collecting semen from sharks in the wild.⁠
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From 7 to 14 December, around 15 experts will attempt to collect semen from Indo-Pacific leopard shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) males gathering off North Stradbroke Island near Brisbane, Australia. They hope to use the semen for artificial inseminations of female leopard sharks in aquariums across Australia and in Singapore.⁠
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The technique for collecting semen from leopard sharks underwater has been pioneered by Paolo Martelli at Ocean Park Hong Kong, but it has only ever been done in an aquarium setting.⁠
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Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2459154-conservationists-are-collecting-semen-from-endangered-wild-sharks/
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Image: MVErdman

08/12/2024

Sounds like a very good idea

Theee trucks can run the huge distances we need

Good work

Diesel trucks are being converted to run on electricity instead and it only takes a matter of minutes to replace the batteries.Subscribe and set 🔔 » https:/...

08/12/2024

Telling the stories, reading the stories, Always good

A Koori writing group is helping meet a need for more books with storylines Aboriginal people can relate to, and which inspire them to keep reading.

06/12/2024

Do good things

Wirangu teen Mia Speed say she treasures the difference her book is making to empower and inspire her younger family members.

05/12/2024

Absolutely fascinating

Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays another egg this year at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii with a new mating partner.

04/12/2024

A great news story, but just love how the article starts off by talking about about 💩!!

Trapping and habitat degradation made otters disappear from New Mexico and shrank their once-expansive range across the United States.

03/12/2024

Could this make a good plot line for an animated movie 😆😆

Madagascar has launched an operation to repatriate more than 1,000 endangered lemurs and tortoises, seven months after Thai authorities seized them from wildlife traffickers. Officials are calling it…

02/12/2024

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Yay more bees

‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’

02/12/2024

This is a brilliant time of year

The CSX Santa Train is an Appalachian tradition in its 83rd year. The community hard-hit by Helene came together for some Christmas cheer.

02/12/2024

This is cool

A Queensland man had the experience of a lifetime after being invited to play on stage alongside The Killers in a stadium packed with 18,000 people.

01/12/2024

Love this

Newcastle teen Kade Sutton was put into an induced coma after suffering heart failure during a warm-up. Now he's back at the crease, with the support of some sporting heroes and his life-saving coach.

30/11/2024

Understand joy, live joy

Teaching rats to drive a tiny car around a laboratory taught scientists a lot about the benefits of anticipating the joy brought by the things we love.

30/11/2024

It can be hard to remember sometimes in tragedy there is hope

Saplings from the famous tree are being given to 49 UK charities and groups.

29/11/2024

It’s beautiful what we can achieve

For the first time in 100 years, California condors flying over Yurok land, thanks to an intensive reintroduction programme.

29/11/2024

So true

What’s good for the environment is good for your soul

Feeling hopeless when it comes to saving the planet? A new study finds picking up litter can boost your mental health.

29/11/2024

Such a whale-some story

Thousands of people thronged to Ruakākā Beach to help a pod of stranded whales.

28/11/2024

This is amazing

NASA scientists are hoping to understand the history of where they found the rocks — and for evidence of ancient microbial life